Jordan Peterson Quotes

Power is competence.... -Jordan Peterson

Power is competence.

That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

To master a new technology, you have to play with ... -Jordan Peterson

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

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This quote suggests that gaining expertise in a new technology requires hands-on experimentation and exploration. It implies that learning through practical experience is crucial to becoming proficient with technology. It reflects on the value of experiential learning in technology.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take resp... -Jordan Peterson

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitiv... -Jordan Peterson

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

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This quote suggests that technology has a significant impact on amplifying cognitive differences among individuals. It implies that technology can accentuate variations in cognitive abilities or intellectual capacities. It reflects on the influence of technology on cognitive performance.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with ey... -Jordan Peterson

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women!

I've known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that's so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn't you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes.... -Jordan Peterson

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be danger... -Jordan Peterson

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.

It's not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It's inappropriate.

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

The book, '12 Rules For Life,' is a very serious book. There's elements of humor in it, but I'm trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it's necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there's hell to pay if you don't do that.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.... -Jordan Peterson

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

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